MerMarch because i said so

[blackmagicduck]

 

Types Of Mermaid:
1.Good: Everything said about merfolks is wrong. They are reclusive, but not evil. Especially not this one. Maybe they even saved you. No matter what, they love you, absolutely. And, were you to be honest, it was love at first sight on your end, too. But that doesn't mean you can be together...at least, not easily.
2. Bad: Come, jolly sailor bold. Come into the arms of a mermaid, and you will not regret it. They will hold you, and you cannot resist, even as you're dashed against the rock.
3. Wild: Good and evil cannot be applied to mermaids here, for they are like any other wild creature, more beast than man. Yet the more they're exposed to the kindness of humans or others who live on land, the more fond they grow towards it - and those who show them that kindness.
4. Ignorant: The mermaid's intentions are good, yet he or she doesn't realize what they could do to hurt their land dweller lover.
5. The Mermaid Dilemma: What can be done if someone wants to do more with a mermaid than give them kisses or sweet words? Not much, it seems. At first glance, that is, though who knows what can happen if one puts their mind to it.
6. Not What Was Expected: Beauty is always expected of a mermaid, but what if such a creature looked more like this? Who could care for such a beast? Well, there's still charm there, and with enough personality, appearances can be looked past.

Scenarios:
1 ♢ Little Mermaid
♢ Mer
♢ One of you is a mer person with something you want. The other is a powerful mage who can possibly give it to you. Can an arrangement be made...?

2 ♢ Exploration
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Whatever you are, your curiosity has gotten the best of you. Whether it's a sunken shipwreck on the bottom of the ocean or a mysterious cove hidden away along the cliffside... Venturing with a friend or running into something unexpected... What will you find?

3 ♢ Exchange
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Sometimes, territories are broached, but it's not always a bad thing. Whether you're of entirely different species, or just from different seas, you've met in peaceful circumstances- perhaps as a direct result of those! So it's time for a cultural exchange. Just ignore the fresh water mer. 

4 ♢ For Science
♢ Mer and Human
♢ This is a one in a lifetime chance.... for at least one person. Are you on an isolated island? A ship far out to sea? A highly funded aquarium? Or perhaps even a laboratory with more than questionable methods... Either way, you have the chance now to study something rarely seen before. How will it turn out for both of you?

5 ♢ Ariel's Dream
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Some say it's impossible for a mer to live on dry land... except that's been quietly proven wrong. One of you has taken to living among humans, whether for years or still learning the ropes. As for the other... Are you a concerned friend, checking in on them from the sea? Or are you a landdweller, stumbling onto a great secret?

6 ♢ Sea Life
♢ Mer and Human
♢ While they have the legs for landdwelling, some humans seem to have more saltwater in their veins than blood, and those are the kinds of humans that end up with dealing with the mysteries of the sea the most. A surfer catching waves with shark mer? A pirate bartering with sirens for safe passage? A fisherman working together with those who know fish best? There's all sorts. 

7 ♢ Stranded
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Well, carp. Good job. One way or another, you're stuck where you shouldn't be. Whether that's a human lost in the tides, or a mer trapped against the land, you need help.... So don't be picky with what you do get. 

8 ♢ Siren Song
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Sometimes, there's a good reason people fear the too wide expanse of the sea, or how deep its depths an reach... Strange songs which string through coastal towns and cause disappearances... The sound of something slipping through the water around a ship in the dead of night... Unexplained shapes which flicker outside of deep-sea vessels or submarines or installations. Do you want to know what's out there? 

9 ♢ Capture
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Sometimes, there's a good reason why people fear humans. You don't belong here, being gawked at through thick aquarium glass or trapped in a too-small freakshow tank, but what can you do? Is there anyone who cares for your plight, or are there only people responsible for it?

10 ♢ Chance Encounter
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Well, this is awkward. You didn't mean to stumble onto a mer just... there, doing whatever, on the beach or by the docks or tangled up in your fishing net, but, well. It's happened. Now what?

11 ♢ Transformation
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ For one reason or another, you want to go where you've never gone before... A mer, venturing on the land either as a rare chance or every day business? Or a human, accepting some sort of trade or just to run away from the life you have now? Either way, it might get messy.... Feel free to mix in with other scenarios. 

12 ♢ Fantasy Meets Fantasy
♢ Mer and OTHERS!
♢ Who's to say that humans are the only other creatures in the world? Maybe people living beneath the sea's waves aren't the only strange things. Maybe there are centaurs who travel along coastal roads to watch the night sky along with mer astronomers. Perhaps selkies are just distant cousins. Or who's to say that mer can't be a host of things unto themselves? The ocean's the limit. 

13 ♢ Sci-fi
♢ Mer and Human
♢ Some say astronauts are nothing more than sailors venturing off into another unexplored sea, one that's above instead of below. And, befitting those same sailors of older days, they seem to tell tails of strange melodic frequencies coming in over the radio to their ears, and strange comets that look like tails passing them by on a landed planet. Do they not know what's accompanying them in space, or is that what they're actively chasing?

14 ♢ Divinity
♢ Mer and Human
♢ There are stories told of what exactly it is that could be both human and fish... So it's not surprising that, eventually, one would land upon calling them divine entities, either gods of the sea or lakes, or just their messengers. Is that true, or just a very clever, long lasting ruse?

15 ♢ Afterlife
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Some say mer are just humans, wrongfully forced overboard by superstition or cruelty and welcomed by the sea into something more. Others say that they're the spirits, haunting a particular sea or lake town for a wrongful death. What's the truth? Time to find out. 

16 ♢ Peaceful Living
♢ Mer and/or Human
♢ Not everything has to be a dramatic mess. Sometimes, things just... work out for the best. These are better times, and mer are just another part of life. Water-side towns where everything is built around those that share the waters with them, or huge metropolises with water tubes and sprouts for mer to travel through. How will you imagine this sort of life?

17 ♢ Wildcard
♢ follow your dreams, make up whatever

Mix and Match the two, or pick one!  Pick one of my characters to play with! 

Comments

[richestduck]

"...Ah. I see."

Little wonder she didn't want to leave.

"Do you want me to walk you home?"

[blackmagicduck]

A snort, reverting back to her snooty persona. "I wanted you to leave some time ago, why bother granting my wishes now? Go ahead, pity me all you want, it changes nothing."

[richestduck]

Scrooge swallowed, feeling guilty. "I'm sorry."

[blackmagicduck]

She finished off the fish and wiped the remains from her mouth on her sleeve.

"Forget me. You'll be better off. I bring naught but pain to all those around."

[richestduck]

"I doubt I could any time soon. No matter where the ocean took me," he told her honestly.

[blackmagicduck]

"Ah, I'll stick in your brain like a thorn. Good to know even my memories hurt others."

She began to stand up and toss sand into the fire in an effort to kill it.

[richestduck]

"That's not what I meant," he said sourly. "I meant you're unforgettable. I've never met anyone like you before."

[blackmagicduck]

"More pretty words, none of them true." When the fire was dead, she picked up her basket, trying to head for home.

[richestduck]

He allowed her to think that she'd somehow won the argument, watching her go in boiling frustration. Then without thinking he returned to the rock he'd hidden his seal skin behind, put it on, and dove back into the waves.

He'd intended to swim off and burn off his agitation that way...

However, he pointed his nose in the direction she'd gone in. She didn't want to talk to a man? Fine. Then she could be annoyed by a seal.

[blackmagicduck]

The house was truly nothing of value, property-wise. It was falling apart, there was a hole in the roof, the windows were cracked. The garden around it was large, filled with all sorts of unusual plants.

As Magica approached the old house, there was a great cry from the roof - a black bird swooped down to perch on her shoulder, nuzzling her with affection.

She'd been crying since she left the campfire, quietly so. "I'm sorry I'm late, Ratface." She said gently, taking out a piece of fish for the bird to nibble on.

[richestduck]

He swam to shore, shuffling onto the sand and making his way onto a rock.

"I tried to be nice to you, but nooooo," he ranted even though all she'd hear were seal barks. "I was a man and therefore immediately the enemy! Well how do you like me now, huh?!"

[blackmagicduck]

Magica blinked, turning her head. A seal this close to the shore? How unusual. She encouraged Ratface to return to the house, and approached the seal...

... To offer it one of her fish. Smiling as she did so.

"Here you are. Hungry one, are you? Bet you smelled it a mile away."

[richestduck]

"--and another thing! I--Wait, what now?"

She was offering him a fish that he'd caught for her? He leaned his head forward to sniff at it. Yup, that was one of the herring all right.

"What do you think you're doing?"

[blackmagicduck]

It was the complete opposite of the Magica he'd met at the campfire. She stroked his head, encouraging him to eat.

"There there, it's all right, go ahead. I'm meeting all sorts of handsome boys today, aren't I?"

[richestduck]

"Oh, now you think I'm handsome!" he grumbled.

However, he leaned forward and bit off half of the fish, leaning his head back to gulp it down.

"There. Compromise. I caught those for you."

[blackmagicduck]

"Good boy." She cooed, and even kissed the top of his forehead. She left the rest of the bitten fish on the rock for him. "Don't make your family worry now."

With that, she turned away, intending to go inside. Ratface was watching this from the roof, cocking his head - creatures such as this could detect oddities were afoot.

[richestduck]

"Oi!" he called out to her, the seal bark sharp.

He picked up the fish carefully in his jaws before shuffling over to her and dropping the half-eaten fish in her basket.

"That's yours!"

[blackmagicduck]

Magica blinked again, surprised. She looked at the basket, then the seal, and gave him more friendly pettings.

"What a kind young man you are." She cooed. Ratface flew down to her shoulder, eyeing the seal suspiciously.

[richestduck]

"I was kind to you earlier, too!" he complained.

[blackmagicduck]

"A talkative one, eh? Maybe you're lonely too." She sat down on a nearby rock, putting the basket aside.

[richestduck]

"...Maybe a little."

He shuffled over to her and dropped his massive head in her lap, giving a snort.

[blackmagicduck]

She continued to pet him, despite Ratface's jealous grumblings.

"I seem to get all the lonely animals here. Ratface had no one either, raised him from a hatchling I did. All the animals that come to my door are by their lonesome... I guess they detect a lonely soul." Her voice was nearly poetic, so different from the snappy attitude before.

[richestduck]

He didn't say anything, but Scrooge did huff and poke her stomach with his nose before settling back down. He listened to the sound of her voice, relaxed by it.

[blackmagicduck]

"Maybe that idiot down by the beach was lonely too." She mused, unaware she was stroking said idiot.

"Handsome bugger, not a brain to be found." Ratface cawed, and Magica chuckled. "Yes, yes, no more handsome than you, darling. Just a different kind of handsome."

[richestduck]

"I take offense to that remark," Scrooge huffed as much as it pleased him to be called handsome.